Basket weave bracelet



July 13, 1943 A. o. SCHOENINGER BASKET WEAVE RACELET.

Filed Oct. 29, 1941 by interlocking the Patented July 13, 1943 1,324,241 iv BASKET WEAVE BRACELET Adolf 0. Schoeninger, Irvington, N. J., assignor to Forstner Chain Corporation, a corporation of New Jersey Application October 29, 1941, Serial No. 416,971

2 Claims.

My present invention relates to the jewelry art, and has particular reference to a novel construction for a linked bracelet.

The principal object of the invention is to provide a novel construction for a basket weave bracelet.

A further object is to devise a bracelet construction utilizing stamped links which may be hingedly joined without pivot pins.

Still another object is to provide a bracelet construction utilizing interlocking links.

With the above and other objects and advantageous features in view, the invention consists of a novel'arrangement of parts more fully disclosed in the detailed description following, in conjunction with the accompanying drawing, and more specifically defined in the claims appended thereto.

Fig. l is a plan view of the novel bracelet; Fig. 2 is a plan view of one link blank as stamped;

bar portions of the links in interlocking relation, the prongs l4 looking over the short bar sections l3b of the adjacent links to provide a sturdy pivoted construction which does not require any auxiliary hinge pins or other-connection. The resulting metal band is of the flexible metal mesh type, as'illustratecl in Fig. 1, and may be made of any desired length, the ends being provided with clasp means or'latch devices, not shown, to hold the bracelet closed.

The links may be stamped of any suitable metal, and ornamented in any desired manner. as for example by plating or otherwise coloring the links with slight variations in color.

While I have described a specific constructional embodiment of my invention, it is ohrality of vious that changes in the size, shape, arrangement of the parts, and in the number or staggered bars, may be made to suit the requirements for different bracelet designs, without departing from the spirit and the scope of the invention as defined in the appended claims.

I claim:

1. A basket weave bracelet, comprising a pininterlocked links, each link having a body portion, an odd number of bar sections extending laterally from each side of the body portion, the bar sections on one side being alternately long and short and the aligned bar sections on the other sidebeing alternately short and long, the long and short bar sections at one side of the body portion being bent to overlie of sturdy construction. To this end, 1 stamp link blanks out of sheet metal, bend and shape the blanks to form links, and complete the assembly links to provide a flexible metal mesh bracelet.

Referring to the drawing, the basket weave bracelet i0 is made up of a plurality of interlocked links H. Each link H is obtained from a metal stamping H, see Fig. 2, having a plurality of parallel bars l3, the illustrated embodiment showing seven, extending in staggered relation with respect to the central or body portion Ha of the stamping, each bar consisting of a long bar section I311 extending from one side of the body portion and an aligned short bar section l3b extending from the other side of the body portion, the ends of each long bar section being reduced to provide a lock prong l4.

Adjacent links are ends of the aligned long and short bar sections in spaced'longitudinal relation, as shown in Fig.

then interlocked, with the 4. by alte nately placing the tour and the three the aligned short and long bar sections at the other side with the ends thereof in spaced longitudinal relation, the ends of the long bar sections being bent to interlock with the short bar sections of the adjacent links.

' 2. A basket weave bracelet, comprising a plurality of interlocked links, each link having a body portion, an odd-number of bar sections extending laterally from each side of the body portion, the bar sections on one side being alternately long and short and the aligned bar sections on the other-v side being alternately short and long, the long bar sections having reduced prong ends, the long and short bar sections at one side of the body portion being bent to 'overlie the aligned short and long bar sections at the other side with the ends thereof in spaced 1ongitudinal relation, the reduced prong ends of the long bar sections being bent to interlock with the short bar sections of the adjacent links.

ADOLF O. SCHOENINGER- 

